Subject: Re: Displaying plaintext and not HTML

From: Michael <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 21:26:47 -0800

Hi Jason,

On 11 Jan 1997, Jason Willoughby wrote:

:   Having been innundated by HTML emails from early adopters of Netscape's
: new version (a problem that's only going to get worse), I decided to fix
: it.  So I poured over man pages, edited mailcaps, and generally killed ten
: minutes.  Held my breath, launched pine, and...
: 
:   [Part 1, Text/PLAIN  35 lines]
:   [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part]
: 
:   [Part 2, ""  Text/HTML  39 lines]
:   [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part]
: 
: Hmm.  So now that I've succeeded in telling pine that it can't handle 
: Text/HTML, how do I tell it that it *can* handle Text/PLAIN?
: 
: [email-masked]
: 

You might not be able to. Here is a post from someone else...

> I tried to respond the the previous message that DID have both forms of
> message content above and kept getting an 8-bit character error when
> trying to post. There was nothing in the body, either text or html
> sections, that looked to me to be 8-bit, but the error persisted. ?

I found that PINE will NOT read message in the form of the new NutScrape
bug by selecting 'v', but if you must, you CAN read the message if you
reply, oddly enough. 

Take care,

Michael ([email-masked])

Press CTRL + L-AMIGA + R-AMIGA to continue...

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From: [email-masked] (Jason Willoughby)
Date: 11 Jan 1997 08:10:08 -0500

Having been innundated by HTML emails from early adopters of Netscape's
new version (a problem that's only going to get worse), I decided to fix
it.  So I poured over man pages, edited mailcaps, and generally killed ten
minutes.  Held my breath, launched pine, and...

  [Part 1, Text/PLAIN  35 lines]
  [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part]

  [Part 2, ""  Text/HTML  39 lines]
  [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part]

Hmm.  So now that I've succeeded in telling pine that it can't handle 
Text/HTML, how do I tell it that it *can* handle Text/PLAIN?

[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Jason Willoughby)
Date: 14 Jan 1997 09:01:40 -0500

Michael ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I found that PINE will NOT read message in the form of the new NutScrape
: bug by selecting 'v', but if you must, you CAN read the message if you
: reply, oddly enough. 

  Huh?  I've never had any problem with the 'v'iew command, it displays
both text and HTML just fine.  The thing is, I'd rather not need to use
view for a type pine can and does display in the main window.

[email-masked]

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 04:25:58 +0100 (MET)

>view for a type pine can and does display in the main window.

At 4:22 in the morning, people get strange ideas sometimes...
Here's mine for today:
IF you're getting mails like that on a regular basis, why not invoke emacs
(e.g.) as your alternate editor and cut the tags? Just my $.02
Personally, I prefer a nice procmail recipe that bounces mail composed with
Netscrape - after all, what people use this thing for a mailer? *chuckle*
Fat chance you'll miss something important this way... >:->

Cheers,
Robin

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